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An electro-organic hybrid of experimental rock & electronica that mood-swings through densely-layered atmospheres and textures, from funky to dreamy, making many stops between.

Founding Zru Vogue members Andrew Jackson and Max Tyrell created this unusual album as a "blind collaboration" — each of them working in his own studio, manipulating tracks, and sending mixes back and forth from Los Angeles to San Francisco, neither one knowing what the other was doing.

This free-form creativity led to curious and unexpected results; the 10 tracks that emerged from their creative collaboration (as the album "Unlimited Enjoyment Instant Gratification") never fails to amaze and amuse.

Andrew Jackson on making the CD: "We each composed new music, not knowing what the other was doing, exchanged DATs, and discovered a remarkable continuity in the sound. Then we continued the process, trading DATs back and forth between Max's studio in the Los Angeles hills and Andrew's studio in Silicon Valley. We added to, deconstructed, and reworked the music, using the double-edged creative sword of intuition and intention, not ever knowing what the other was doing, so that the results were always surprising and unexpected."

"Some of the tracks evolved into songs, while others remained instrumental. Some were reworked more than others. After a few months of this, we had more than enough music for a full length CD. It was time to compile some final mixes, design a cover, and put it all together."

"We even collaborated on the cover art and design. The CD got its name from a headline clipped from a magazine that fell out of an envelope that I had mailed to Max with one of the Digital Audio Tape mixes; another random element that we interpreted as serendipity."

"Throughout the project, we conjured and captured the Spirit of The Zru as we knew it. We learned that The Zru cannot be tamed. It can only be captured for a time, before it is released again into the wild."

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released January 1, 1998

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Official website of ZRU VOGUE. // Avant-Pop, Art-Funk, Surrealist Indie Rock from the San Francisco Bay Area. Zru Vogue's
first single "Nakweda Dream" (1981) is an early post-punk classic. Band members Andrew Lawrence Jackson, Rick Cuevas, and Patrick Coyne continue to create inspired new music for postmoderns....more

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What will I do about everything, everything?
What can I do to escape the mistakes I will make
Without knowing
Those dangerous moments when one fatal weakness
Can lead to confessions
That’s not a road I would willingly take
I don’t want to make that mistake

What can I say but that nothing is everything
I am alone but I’m everywhere, everyone
Floating above it all, near to the ceiling
I’m looking back down but I’m scared of this feeling

It’s almost too much, I could just fade completely
I’m rising too high to be anyone, anything
That’s not a flight that I’m ready to take
And I don’t want to make that mistake
I don’t want to make that mistake

Remember to look back but never forget
There are people you know that you haven’t yet met
Who will happily lead you down roads that you shouldn’t take
I don’t want to make that mistake

So many people are lost and deluded
They put on a face but inside they’re polluted
From too much of everything bad and distasteful
Emotions so numbingly hurtful and painful
I sympathize but I can’t save you, I’m sorry
It’s too much, I know, but don’t worry, don’t hurry
It’s not worth it, just take your time and relax
There will come some decisions you’d rather not make
You don’t want to make that mistake